Land of the Long White Clouds

I’ve just started a new job which has sucked out all of my time, so I was running late trying to dream up a post for this week. Fortunately the answer was just outside the window, so to speak. I’ve mentioned before that I live in Highbury, a suburb high on a hill in the west of the city that overlooks the city and Wellington Harbour. Autumn has arrived with a vengeance and the weather delivered straight from Antarctica that I’ve come to regard with… come to regard as being typical of New Zealand. But I’ve also been up early and taking lots of photographs lately of the spectacular dawn skies over Wellington. So without further ado; enjoy an early Skywatch Friday! Click the images to get bigger better versions.

Some days the sun only favours the eastern side of the harbour.

Some days Wellington Harbour is bathed in gold.

Some days the clouds are neither long nor white.

A little later that day

Clouds both high and low

Looking a bit to the south for a change, to where the harbour entrance is hidden by low cloud.

Duncan Wright is a Wellington-based ornithologist working on the evolution of New Zealand’s birds. He’s previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. He came into studying birds rather later in life, and could quit any time he wants to.

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We stayed once in a little cottage in Eastbourne with a bathtub in the front yard and loved the views of Wellington. This brought it all back! Although our seasons are reversed, these photos don’t look much different from my views here on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Good luck with the new job!

Good Luck with the new job! I once met an elderly man on the beach here in winter and it was 30c and he said he came from Wellington. He said it was the warmest city in NZ so he moved there, but was NOT what he thought of as warm in winter-hence the trip to Broome! Great photos!